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Memoir of Sir John Barrow , Bart . 1 

Extract from the Autobiography of Sir John 


Barrow . .. 15 

Description of the Barrow Tower . 20 

Ceremony of laying the Foundation Stone . ., 24 

List of Subscribers . 42 

Cost of the Tower .. .. ., 55 

Days upon which the Union Jack is hoisted, .. 56 











PREFACE. 


Among the visitors to the “ Barrow Monument, 5 * 
there are doubtless many who will wish to carry 
away with them some record concerning it. These 
few leaves have been put together chiefly with that 
object, but partly with the view of applying any pro¬ 
fits that may arise from the sale of the pamphlet, to 
keeping the Tower in repair, for which purpose, 
and for remunerating an attendant, a charge of 2d. is 
made, by order of the Committee, for all persons 
entering the Building, a charge, which, as the Tower 
has been built at a large cost, and by private sub¬ 
scription, it is hoped will not be considered other¬ 
wise than reasonable; and that each person, who 
may visit the Monument, will feel a pleasure in thus 
helping to contribute to its preservation, the building 
being an object of universal admiration, and a great 
ornament to Ulverston, and its surrounding neigh¬ 
bourhood. 

The following pages will be found to contain a 
brief memoir of Sir John Barrow, the greater part 
of which appeared in the Times , written by Sir 






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PREFACE. 


George Staunton, his long tried faithful friend; 
together with a description of the Tower, written 
by Mr. Trimen, the able Architect, upon whose de¬ 
sign, which is remarkable for its taste and elegance, 
the Tower was erected ; and an account of the cere¬ 
mony of laying the Foundation Stone. A List of 
the Subscribers is also added, in which will be seen 
the names of many great and good men, who readily 
joined in paying their tribute of respect to the me¬ 
mory of one who was well known in public life, 
and in the walks of science and literature, and who, 
in private life, was esteemed by all. It would have 
contained the names of many more of the honor¬ 
able of the land, of many of our most distinguished 
Statesmen, but Sir John Barrow outlived nearly all 
the friends of his youth and manhood. His contem¬ 
poraries had nearly all passed away before him. Of 
those friends, however, that remain, his family have 
the gratification of finding but few whose names are 
not included among the Subscribers. 

There probably will not be found in the United 
Kingdom a more striking private monument than 
that which stands upon the Hill of Hoad, erected by 
private friends, although it may now fairly claim the 
title of one of the Public Monuments of our Coun¬ 
try, and as such let us earnestly hope that the 


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Public, and particularly the Inhabitants of Ulver- 
ston, will, as far as lies in their power, protect it 
from injury, which the idle, thoughtless, or mis¬ 
chievous are ever ready to commit, even in these 
days of advanced education. 

The site was selected by Captain Washington, 
R. N., and approved by Sir Francis Beaufort, the 
Hydrographer of the Admiralty, as also by the 
Trinity House; and the Trustees of the Town 
Lands, and Mr. Postlethwaite, (the Lessee,) gave 
their willing consent,—the latter gentleman allow¬ 
ing free access to the Tower at all times, and 
obligingly taking it under his own charge. 

It is worthy of remark, and may serve as a caution 
to others, that the last stone of the Tower had 
scarcely been fixed, and the scaffolding removed, 
(on 3rd January, 1851,) when singular to say, it 
was unfortunately struck by lightning. Directions 
had been given by the Committee two months pre¬ 
vious for fitting one of Sir William Snow Plarris’s 
Lightning Conductors, but the order had not been 
carried out, and at that time of the year no 
one thought there was much risk. It however 
proved otherwise, and on the 30th of the month, 
just three weeks after, a violent storm passed over, 
and the electric fluid struck the cupola, throwing off 




IV PREFACE. 

nine huge stones of 3 cwt. each, five of which fell 
inside, and four outside the Tower. The stones 
which fell inside, broke five out of the six iron 
girders, and a great portion of the steps which wind 
inside to the top, whilst those which fell outside the 
Tower, hit the buttress and completely smashed the 
parts upon which they fell. To guard against simi¬ 
lar misfortune, temporary conductors ought to be 
placed, as the building of a tower proceeds. 

This unforseen event rendered it necessary to re¬ 
erect the scaffolding and repair the cupola, to the 
corner stone, which cost the additional sum of 
£136. the chief part being immediately subscribed 
by the family. Since the lightning conductor has 
been fixed no damage has happened, though the 
lightning has been seen to play around the Tower, 
which it will frequently do, as the Tower stands 
on an eminence, at the very entrance as it 
were of the mountain range of Westmoreland and 
Cumberland, and the first salient point from 
the southward and westward. With Sir William 
Snow Harris’s admirable conductors, little fear it 
is hoped need now be felt for the security of the 
Tower, which is fitted with one of these simple con¬ 
trivances, the general introduction of which into the 
Royal Navy, Sir John Barrow at all times most 
strongly advocated. 


PREFACE, 


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The following is a list of the gentlemen who 
formed the Committee for the Barrow Testimonial, 
viz :— 

Sir G. Thos. Staunton, Bart., M. P., Chairman. 

Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, K. C. B. 

Captain Washington, R. N. 

Captain Wood, R. M. 

Sir George Barrow, Bart. 

Captain Denham, R. N. 

John Barrow, Esq., F, R. S. 

At Ulverston—The Rev. R. Gwillym, Dr. Gilpin, 
Mr. Remington, and Mr. Sunderland, together with 
several other Gentlemen kindly formed a Local 
Committee. 

Commander Becher, R. N., of the Hydrographi¬ 
cal Department of the Admiralty, acted as Hono¬ 
rary Secretary, and, attributable in a great measure 
to his unceasing exertions and skilful management, 
the work was brought to a successful termination, 
and the intentions of the Subscribers satisfactorily 
carried out. 

Subscriptions were obligingly received by Messrs. 
Coutts, Messrs. Cocks and Biddulph,—and by 
Messrs. Petty and Postlethwaite, of Ulverston. 

J. B. 


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MEMOIR 


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SIR JOHN BARROW, BART., F.R.S., L.L.D, 

Late Secretary of the Admiralty. 

&c. &c. &c. 


The name of the late Sir John Barrow will occupy 
an honorable place in the list of those highly gifted 
individuals of whom England is justly proud, and 
who, by their original genius and energetic minds, 
have, in their different walks of life, rendered emi¬ 
nent services to their country. The friends of his 
childhood and youth did not provide him with more 
than the ordinary means of instruction, but he seized 
on those means with avidity and industry, and it 
was his self-education that mainly conferred on him 
those powers which, when the day of trial arrived, 
he turned to so good an account. 

About the time that Mr. Barrow arrived at the 
period of manhood he was fortunate in obtaining, 
through the interest of a friend, (the late Sir George 

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Staunton, Bart.) a place in the first British Embassy 
to China. He was thus enabled to put his foot on 
the first step of the ladder of ambition; but every 
subsequent step of his advancement in his distin¬ 
guished career may be fairly said to have been 
achieved by himself. His talent and his zeal for the 
public service, when once known and placed in a fair 
field for action, could hardly fail of being appreciated 
and duly fostered by those distinguished statesmen 
under whom he successively served. 

It so happened, that the chiefs of the British Mis¬ 
sion to China in 1792, the Earl of Macartney, and 
the late Sir George Staunton, were, in some respects, 
not so happily provided with active and talented 
associates as might have been wished ; but in Mr. 
Alexander, the draughtsman of the embassy, they 
were fortunate in possessing a very able and diligent 
artist; and Mr. Barrow, from his various talents, 
and the zeal and alacrity with which he applied 
himself to every department of the service, although 
his own was only a subordinate one, was a host in 
himself. The authentic account of the embassy, 
published by the late Sir George Staunton, records 
many of Mr. Barrow’s valuable contributions to 
literature and science connected with China. This 
work, therefore, together with his own subsequen tly 


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published supplemental volume of travels, is ample 
evidence how well his time had been employed. 
Had no unpropitious political events occurred to 
prevent the views and plans of the mission being 
carried out, it is not too much to say that the able 
and ingenious men who were employed in it would 
most probably have effected, by peaceful means, all 
those improvements in the terms of our intercourse 
with China which, some 50 years after, have cost us 
such a painful expenditure of blood and treasure. 
It was not to be expected that any person of mature 
age could within the space of a few months overcome 
all the practical difficulties of such a language as the 
Chinese; but Mr. Barrow had already begun to con¬ 
verse in it, and he had acquired a complete know¬ 
ledge of its theory. His papers on this subject in 
the Quarterly Review contain probably the best and 
most popular account of that singular language and 
character which was ever presented to the British 
public. 

Although Mr. Barrow ceased to be personally 
connected with our affairs in China after the return 
of the embassy in 1794, he always continued to take 
a lively interest in the varying circumstances of our 
relations with that empire. On the occasion of the 
second embassy under Lord Amherst, in 1816, he 


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was of course consulted by the ruling powers; but, 
unfortunately, although his advice was asked, it was 
not taken; and in consequence of the injudicious 
rejection of the proposal which his prophetic sagacity 
had suggested for getting rid of the vexatious ques¬ 
tion of the Chinese ceremony , Lord Amherst and 
his colleagues were compelled to abandon the per¬ 
sonal reception of the mission for the sake of pre¬ 
serving the honour and real interests of the English 
in China, which would have been essentially dama¬ 
ged by the acceptance of the terms upon which it 
was offered. Mr. Barrow was likewise consulted, 
and we believe more fairly and confidentially, on 
the occasion of our recent conflict with China, which 
it is to be hoped, has secured our future peace with 
that country. 

Lord Macartney was naturally anxious to secure 
the aid of such a man as Mr. Barrow’ in his next 
public service, his important and delicate mission to 
settle the Government of our newly acquired colony 
of the Cape of Good Hope. Mr. Barrow was en¬ 
trusted with our first communication with the Caffre 
tribes, and it would have been well for the public 
interests if the spirit, judgment, and humanity which 
he then displayed had more uniformly governed our 
subsequent transactions with that remarkable race. 


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The two volumes of his History of the Colony, and 
the unrivalled map with which they are illustrated, 
made the public at once fully acquainted with the 
extent, capacities, and resources of that important, 
but till then little understood acquisition of the 
British Crown. 

There is little doubt that it was the perusal of this 
valuable work which mainly decided Lord Melville 
to accept of Lord Macartney’s recommendation of a 
perfect stranger to him, as Mr. Barrow then was, as 
his second secretary of the Admiralty. It is not our 
purpose to enter here into the merits of Mr. Barrow’s 
subsequent career for 40 years at the Admiralty. 
It would be in fact, nothing less than the history of 
the civil administration of our navy for the same pe¬ 
riod. Suffice it to say, that he enjoyed the uniform 
esteem and confidence of the eleven chief Lords who 
successively presided at the Admiralty Board during 
that period, and more especially of William IV., 
while Lord High Admiral, who honored him with 
tokens of his sincere personal regard. Mr. Barrow 
received the honour of the baronetcy during the 
short Administration of Sir Robert Peel in 1835; 
and strong as party feeling ran at that time, not a 
voice was heard in disapproval of this exercise of 
the Royal prerogative. 



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The following was the letter he received from Sir 
Robert Peel communicating the information, and 
subjoined to it is an extract of a letter from the 
King, and also one of congratulation from Sir 
George Cockburn, who was many years first Sea 
Lord of the Admiralty :— 

“ Whitehall Gardens, Feb. 1, 1835. 

“ My dear Sir, 

“ I have had the great satisfaction of 
proposing to the King to confer upon you the dis¬ 
tinction of a baronet, and of receiving from his 
Majesty the most cordial approbation of my pro¬ 
posal. 

“ The value of such a distinction depends mainly 
upon the grounds on which it is offered, and I can¬ 
not help flattering myself that an unsolicited, and 
probably unexpected, honour conferred upon you 
by the King, on the double ground of eminence in 
the pursuits of science and literature, and of long, 
most able, and most faithful public service, will 
have, in the eyes of yourself, your family, and your 
posterity, a value which never can attach to much 
higher, when unmerited, distinctions. 

“ Believe me, my dear Sir, 

“ Most faithfully yours, 
(Signed) “ Robert Peel.” 


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[Extract of a letter from William IV.] 

“ No one can admit more strongly than does his 
Majesty the claims, literary, scientific, and official, 
which are united in the person of his highly es¬ 
teemed friend Mr. Barrow. 

(Signed) “ William R.” 

[Extract of a letter from Admiral , The Rt. Hon. 
Sir George Cockburn, G. C. B .] 


(Private.) 


“ Admiral’s House, Bermuda, 

“21st May, 1835. 

“ My dear Sir John, 

“ This being the first time I have 
so addressed you, I must begin my letter by offer¬ 
ing you my very sincere congratulations on your 
having received this so well-merited mark of dis¬ 
tinction, and requesting you to believe how cor¬ 
dially I hope that you may long, very long, enjoy 
this honour, which has seldom, or never been more 
fully earned by so long-continued and valuable ser¬ 
vices to the state, and which consequently must 
have given universal satisfaction not only to your 
friends, but to the public at large.” 

“ G. Cockburn.” 








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Sir John Barrow no doubt held strong opinions 
on the various national questions upon which the 
great political parties in this country are divided,— 
as who does not who has a heart devoted to his 
country, and a head capable of serving it! But he 
never suffered any party feeling or bias to interfere 
with the zealous discharge of his public and official 
duty ; and it so happened, that the most remarkable 
and active period of his public service at the Admi¬ 
ralty was that during which he was occupied in 
carrying out those important changes, which have 
so much improved and simplified the system of the 
civil administration of the Navy, and which were in¬ 
troduced by Sir James Graham, under a Whig Ad¬ 
ministration. 

Sir John Barrow retired from public life in 1845 
in consideration of his advanced years, although he 
was still in vigorous possession of all the mental and 
bodily powers required for the due discharge of the 
functions of his office. In the course of the suc¬ 
ceeding three years his vital energies became gra¬ 
dually somewhat weaker, but he seemed on the 
whole so hearty and so fully in the enjoyment of his 
faculties, that his friends and relatives entertained 
no apprehension that his end was so near. The 
anxiety arising from the death of his lamented son- 


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ih-law, Lt. Col. Batty, very probably hastened the 
termination of his life. He expired suddenly, and 
without suffering, at his residence in London, 
(7, New Street, Spring Gardens,) on the 23rd 
November, 1848, in the 85th year of liis age. 

Among the many letters Sir John Barrow re¬ 
ceived on his retirement from Office, was the fol¬ 
lowing from Sir Robert Peel:— 

“Whitehall, January 10th, 1845. 

“ My dear Sir, 

£< I cannot allow you to retire 
from the public service without conveying to you 
my high sense of the services which you have ren¬ 
dered to the public during a long and honourable 
career, and expressing my cordial wishes that you 
may long enjoy, in a private station, health and 
happiness. 

“ Believe me, my dear Sir, 

“with sincere regard, 

“ Most faithfully yours, 

“ Robert Peel.” 

“ Sir John Barrow, Bart.” 

Sir John Barrow lived to have the gratification of 
seeing his sons enjoying honourable distinction in 
the public service; the elder, now Sir George Bar- 

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row, in the Colonial Office, and the next, Mr. 
Barrow of the Admiralty. The latter has been 
favourably distinguished by having been employed 
by Sir George Cockburn, to arrange and bring out 
the existing Regulations and Instructions for the 
government of the Naval Service, a very laborious as 
well as important undertaking, his able performance 
of which procured for him the marked approbation 
of the Board, as specially recorded in an official 
minute; and is now at the head of a very important 
department—the charge of the Records of the Ad¬ 
miralty ; he is also well known to the public by his 
talents as an author. He has given to us some 
pleasing accounts of his travels abroad; and his an¬ 
tiquarian researches at home have brought to light 
many curious particulars relative to some of our 
celebrated naval worthies. His third son, Com¬ 
mander William Barrow, of the Royal Navy, a very 
promising young Officer, died about ten years ago. 

After having served three years on the East India 
Station, in the command of Her Majesty’s Sloop 
Rose , and while zealously engaged in the discharge 
of his duties in the Straits of Malacca, his health 
unfortunately failed him, and having consequently 
been invalided at the Cape of Good Hope, on his 
passage home, he died there in February, 1838, in 


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the 28th year of his age. His youngest son, is 
British Vice-Consul at Caen. 

Sir John Barrow had the moral courage to pub¬ 
lish, during his lifetime, his own biography, and he 
modestly states his motives in the following words : 
— C£ To trace my progress through the vicissitudes of 
a life extended beyond the general period of human 
existence, and, by the mercy of God, without any 
painful suffering from accident or disease, has been 
my object, more with a view of benefitting my 
children and theirs, by the example it holds forth 
of industrious habits, than with any other,”— 
We are sure the public have been thankful to him, 
for this interesting addition to his already numerous 
publications, and will wish that other eminent men, 
whose career has been similarly distinguished, and 
similarly worthy of imitation, may follow his ex¬ 
ample. 

We have said nothing yet of his various other 
works, whether published in his own name, or ano¬ 
nymously inserted in various Reviews, chiefly the 
Quarterly ; because they are already well known to 
the public, and speak for themselves. During a 
long series of years, whenever an article illustrative 
of science or enterprise appeared in the Quarterly , 
the public at once recognised the hand from which 




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it proceeded, and valued it accordingly. He had, 
indeed, not only a remarkable facility in composi¬ 
tion, but, what was of still more importance, that of 
detecting, sifting, arranging, and applying all those 
dispersed and often obscure materials which were 
essential to the elucidation of his subject, but, 
which, however important in themselves, had been, 
in their crude state, almost unknown and valueless. 
He was, however, surprised, when his publisher, 
Mr. Murray, presented him with ten portly and 
handsomely-bound volumes, containing the Essays 
of his own composition, selected from the Quarterly , 
and comprising at least one-fourth part of that pe¬ 
riodical, as it then existed. 

It is impossible, even in this brief Memoir, to pass 
over altogether without notice one remarkable fea¬ 
ture of Sir John Barrow’s official life,—his advocacy 
and promotion of the several Polar Expeditions. 
Although it is absurd to impute the direct responsi¬ 
bility for these expeditions to any other quarter than 
the several Administrations during which they were 
undertaken, there can be no question but that these 
enterprises originated in Sir John Barrow’s able and 
zealous exhibition, to our Naval Authorities, of the 
several facts and arguments upon which they might 
best be justified and prosecuted as national objects, 


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The prevailing anxiety respecting the fate of Sir 
John Franklin and his gallant companions, throws 
at this moment somewhat of a gloom on this sub¬ 
ject ; but it ought to be remembered that, up to the 
present period, our successive Polar Voyages have, 
without exception, given occupation to the energies 
and gallantry of British seamen, and have extended 
the realms of magnetic and general science, at an 
expense of lives and money quite insignificant, com¬ 
pared with the ordinary dangers and casualties of 
such expeditions, and that it must be a very narrow 
spirit and view of the subject which can raise the 
cry of “ Cui bono,” and counsel us to relinquish the 
honor and perils of such enterprises to Russia, and 
the United States of America! 

We cannot close this brief Memoir of Sir John 
Barrow more appropriately than by the following 
pleasing extract, abridged from the account of his 
decease in the Ulverston Advertiser , a provincial 
journal, published in his native district in Lan¬ 
cashire :—* 

.“Sir John never forgot the spot that gave 

him birth. By his will, the annual subscription 
which he had been in the habit of contributing for 
a long series of years to the support of the school 
in which he was educated, is to be continued. 




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£ ‘ His memory will long survive, and his example 
be held up for imitation by all who derive their birth 
or education from the same locality. The name of 
Sir John Barrow is a household word amongst us; 
although he who bore it is departed, his memory 
still lingers lovingly about our hearths, and will 
continue to be cherished by our children’s children, 
through many a generation. 

“ Sir John Barrow’s funeral was entirely private, 
and attended only by his three sons and grandson, 
and his old friends, Sir George Staunton, Bart., Sir 
Benjamin Brodie, Bart., and the Right Honourable 
John Wilson Croker, his former colleague and near 
connection through the marriage of the present Sir 
George Barrow, to a sister of Mrs. Croker. The 
day of the interment was observed at Ulverston by 
the tolling of the bells of the old church; and a 
blue ensign, half-pole high, waved over the cottage 
in which he was born!” 

He was buried in London, in a grave next to that 
of his son-in-law, Lt. Colonel Batty, in a piece of 
ground at Camden Town, belonging to the parish 
of St. Martin’s in the Fields. A marble obelisk 
marks the spot. 

The grandson mentioned is the eldest son of 
the late Lt. Col. Batty, a young man of great ac¬ 
quirements. 


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It will be interesting to our readers to know that 
Sir John Barrow retained all his faculties to the last, 
that in point of fact, although in the 85th year of 
his age, he was preparing for the press a supple¬ 
mental chapter for his Autobiography, giving an ac¬ 
count of the several Presidents of the Royal Society, 
during the long period that he was a Fellow of that 
body, and of some of the Principal Members of the 
Club, where he was a constant attendant from the 
time of Sir Joseph Banks, and in which he always 
took the greatest delight. This supplemental chap¬ 
ter which he had very nearly completed for publi¬ 
cation, has been printed by his sons, and shows the 
extraordinary vigour of his mind at a period of 
life, which it is the lot of few to attain. 


Extract from the Autobiography of Sir John Barrow. 

“ In the extreme northern part of North Lancashire 
is the market-town of Ulverstone, and not far from 
it the obscure village of Dragleybeck, in which a 
small cottage gave me birth on the 19th June, 
1764; being the only child of Roger and Mary 
Barrow. The said cottage had been in my mother’s 
family nearly two hundred years, and had descended 
to her aunt, who lived in it to the age of eighty, 


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and in it my mother died at the advanced age of 
ninety. 

“ To the cottage were attached three or four fields, 
sufficient for the keep of as many cows, which sup¬ 
plied our family with milk and butter, besides 
reserving a portion of land for a crop of oats. 
There was also a paddock behind the cottage, called 
the hemp-land, expressive of the use to which it 
had at one time been applied, but now converted to 
the cultivation of potatoes, peas, beans, and other 
culinary vegetables; which, with the grain, fell to 
the labour of my father, who, with several brothers, 
the sons of an extensive farmer, was brought up to 
that business in the neighbourhood of the Lakes; 
and three or four of the sons held large farms under 
the Devonshire family—Cavendish and Burlington. 

“ At the bottom of the hemp-land, runs the beck 
or brook, a clear stream that gives the name to the 
village, and abounds with trout. 

“ Contiguous to the cottage was also a small flower 
garden, which, in due time, fell to my share; that 
is, while yet a young boy I had full charge of keep¬ 
ing up a supply of the ordinary flowers of the 
season. I did more; I planted a number of trees 
of different kinds, which grew well, but long after I 
left home, I understood that many of them had 


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been destroyed by the turning of a road. One of 
them, however, it appears, has survived, which must 
be now from seventy to seventy-five years old; and 
the mention of it kindles in my bosom a spark of 
gratitude, which an imputation of vanity will not 
allow me to suppress. The following extract of a 
letter, received in 1844, from an aged female cousin, 
will tell the incident better than I can. My corres¬ 
pondent says,—“ Mr. Gilpin ” (who is an able and 
accomplished gentleman residing in Ulverstone,) 
“ called to say he was come to take a glass of wine 
with us, to drink your health in honour; for that 
day it was your eightieth birthday, and he was sure 
there was not one gentleman at your age, to be found 
so clever and active as yourself; he was sure you 
were like one of fifty; he told us that he and Mr. 
Braddyll were going to put a colour or flag into the 
rowan-tree that you planted when a boy, which is a 
fine tree full of red berries, and hoped we would go 
down to see it. We went down to see it; and I 
assure you, sir, they had put a dashing flag brought 
from the Priory. I asked the girls at the cottage if 
one of them was married. She said—No; Mr. 
Braddyll and Dr. Gilpin had put it up, it being Sir 
John Barrow's birthday, and had treated them all, 
that they might drink your health. That evening 

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Mr. Gilpin had a party of gentlemen to supper, in 
honour. There is a new wall round the cottage, 
but the tree was not moved from its place, and the 
colour hung gracefully from it. There was one lady 
was glad she had lived to see it,—that was Mrs. 
Harrison; she was Miss Betsey Briggs, sister to 
your old friend. The flag was brought by Mr. Sun¬ 
derland from the capture of Acre. I am sure that 
all in Ulverstone must feel the greatest respect for 
you, for the lane to the cottage was, during the day, 
the general walk to look at the flag, and to wish 
health and long life to Sir John Barrow.” 

“ I was sensibly affected with this mark of a kindly 
feeling towards one who, from circumstances, had 
not visited his native place for more than fifty 
years. All my old schoolfellows had long ago de¬ 
parted this life. My little property has equally, 
long since, been disposed of. The younger and sur¬ 
viving branches of the family never knew me, and 
all that keeps up the recollection of the townspeo¬ 
ple are a few charities, with which my name, and 
those of my family here, are associated; and of 
which there is one in particular I have reason to be 
proud of—the establishment of a Sunday-school. 
Just after leaving school, in a conversation with a 
young friend, we lamented that there was no such 


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thing as a Sunday-school, for the benefit of poor 
children, and 1 suggested that we should propose 
one—but how ? There was no newspaper—not 
even a printing-press. We, however, drew up a 
plan, and I undertook to stick it up on the market- 
cross, the night before market-day. We saw that 
it excited great attention ; it was talked of; a per¬ 
son offered himself to undertake it; and it suc¬ 
ceeded so well, that to the Ulverstone Sunday- 
school I and some of my family are at this time 
annual subscribers. 

“ My native town of Ulverstone is now, and has 
long been, in a flourshing state. Situated on the 
shore of Morecambe Bay, with which it communi¬ 
cates by a canal, the trade in copper and iron ores, 
and various products of the neighbouring hills, is 
very considerable. Its proximity to the waters of 
Windermere, Coniston, and others of Cumberland 
and Westmoreland, has made it the key, or head¬ 
quarters, to those highly picturesque lakes. It can 
now boast of more than one public library, of several 
printing-presses, of literary and religious societies, 
and of a good grammar-school, besides others which 
are called National Schools. It has a daily mail- 
coach over the sands to Lancaster, and another 
three times a week to Whitehaven. It is lighted 



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with gas, has an abundant supply of good spring 
water, and a clear stream has been conducted 
through the town. Had Mr. West, an intelligent 
Catholic Priest, who resided here, and wrote the 
history of Furness, been now alive, he might with 
justice have styled Ulverstone, as he did in that 
work, “the London of Furness.” He might also 
have spoken with great truth of the salubrity of the 
air, and the health and longevity of its inhabitants; 
my good mother and her aunt were striking exam¬ 
ples of it. 

“ I could not forego this opportunity afforded me 
of saying a word in favour of my native place, 
where my earliest, and I believe my happiest, days 
were passed.” 

Description of the Monumental Tower, 
on the Hoad Hill, Ulverston. 


The plan of the Tower, known as the Barrow 
Tower, is circular, with a spreading base, the 
general form being similar to that of the Eddystone; 
the lantern however in this case, is of the same ma¬ 
terial as the general structure, and forms a con¬ 
sistent architectural feature. 



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The structure is based on the solid limestone 
rock, of which the Hoad Hill is composed, and 
which was found immediately under the turf at the 
summit. 

The ring immediately above the surface is 150 
feet in circuit, being wrought in stone, and forming 
a set off or base, two feet in width, from which the 
surrounding panorama, one of the most beautiful in 
England, may be contemplated in all directions. 

The thickness of the wall, at the surface, is 
twelve feet six inches, intersected with a dry cham¬ 
ber five feet at the base. The wall diminishes in 
thickness from twelve feet six inches, to two feet at 
the cornice, which is formed of massive wrought 
limestone. 

The whole of the lantern and dome, is formed of 
the same material, being wrought within and 
without. 

The steps of the door, and window jambs, the se¬ 
veral rings of set offs, are all in the durable wrought 
limestone of the neighbourhood. The general wall¬ 
ing is in the same stone, and hammered to a suf¬ 
ficiently correct form. The lime of the mortar is 
from the same material, and set so hard, that, as 
the whole is compactly built (every stone being 
completely bedded in the mortar, and every joint 


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completely flushed or filled,) in a short time the 
walls, it is expected, will form one thickness, of a 
most strong and lasting character. 

Probably no stone and mortar with which we are 
acquainted, is better calculated to resist all influences 
of weather, than that of Furness, and this monument 
we trust bids fair to stand as lasting a record, as any 
in the island, of an event of the age. 

The interior is approached from due south, by a 
wide flight of steps, on the right of which, will be 
observed, the “ First Stone ” with its inscription, 
and over the entrance door is cut in bold relief, 
the words:— 


In Honour of 

SIR JOHN BARROW, Bart. 

Erected a. d. 1850. 

The saloon, or principal floor, is elevated about 
seven feet from the summit of the hill, thus fur¬ 
nishing a basement beneath. 

This apartment is eighteen feet nine inches in 
diameter, having deeply recessed windows to the 
cardinal points, the view from each of which can be 
scarcely equalled, either for sublimity, or variety of 
beauty. A stove and range are formed in the recess 
of the west window. 


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The lantern is gained by a solid flight of stone 
stairs, protected by an ornamental iron balustrade, 
cast on the spot from the valuable ore procured 
from the base of Hoad. The pattern is of the fif¬ 
teenth century, each exhibiting the initials J. B. 

Iron girders form the skeletons of the several 
floors (so that the whole may be fireproof,) and the 
visitor, while winding the surface of the interior of 
the cone, is cheered by an occasional peep from the 
several windows with which the sides are pierced, 
and reminded of the reward of the beautiful prospect 
that awaits him at the summit. 

The interior of the lantern is nine feet four inches 
in diameter, and perforated with eight circular 
openings: the same number of pilasters support the 
entablature and dome; around the interior are 
graven the words Soli Deo Gloria. 

A flag-staff of due proportions is fixed from the 
lantern, from which the flag of the nation, (a line- 
of-battle ship’s Union Jack, presented by the 
Lords of the Admiralty, as a mark of their res¬ 
pect to the memory of Sir John Barrow,)—wafted 
by his native mountain breezes, will announce to 
generations yet unborn, that the day of the birth of 
true greatness excites a nation’s joy, while that of 
his death is felt with a nation’s regret; and the 


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tower beneath will, it is to be hoped, stand as a 
monument of the events of a life passed in the 
service of his country, and extending over every 
hemisphere, honoured and appreciated by all classes 
of his fellows. 

Ceremony of laying the Foundation Stone of the 
Barrow Tower , on the 1 5th May , 1850. 

[.Extracted from the “Nautical Magazine** and “ Ulverston 

Advertiser .”] 

The little town of Ulverston, at the head of More- 
cambe Bay, Lancashire, has been “ awakened from 
its propriety,” and more than ordinarily busy of late, 
in doing honour to the memory of one of its sons. 
We have occasionally alluded to the intention of the 
friends of the late Secretary of the Admiralty, Sir 
John Barrow, to erect a tower at Ulverston, the 
place of his birth ; and the ceremony of laying the 
first stone of it, on the elevated summit of Hoad 
Hill, took place on the 15th of May. The Barrow 
Tower, for the expenses of which, upwards of £ 1000. 
have been raised by his friends in a few short months, 
(so good was the cause which it advocated,) was then 
commenced under the most propitious circumstances 



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of weather, and the most favourable auspices of 
some thousands of persons, who assembled from 
adjacent and distant parts, to do honour, to the 
occasion. We find the following recorded in the 
Ulverston Advertiser of the next day, May 16th. ‘ In 
the pages of the Nautical Magazine this little his¬ 
tory will meet the eye of many, both at home and 
abroad, who will peruse it with deep interest, and 
for our own part, we acknowledge the gratification 
we derive in preserving it, not only from our admi¬ 
ration of the subject of it; but, also from a lively 
remembrance of the interest which Sir John Barrow 
always took in the attempts to be useful to our bro¬ 
ther seamen, by improving their charts, and giving 
them useful and valuable information, by establishing 
and maintaining under every privation and difficulty, 
the success of the Nautical Magazine 

At an early hour the bells of St. Mary’s Church 
sent forth glad peals, and the Ulverston brass band 
gave inspiriting and joyous strains from the market¬ 
place, arousing the people to the coming events of 
the day. The Town Bank School, associated as it 
ever must be with the early life of the distinguished 
individual, whose memory to future ages was about 
to be perpetuated, presented a gay appearance; 
wreathed in evergreens, with the proud Flag of 


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England waving over its roof, and streamers floating 
in the breeze, stretching from the belfry to the 
eminence in the field adjoining, appeared glorying, 
as it were, in the once humble scholar it had sent 
forth upon the world to gather, in the paths of 
industry and science, reputation and renown. At 
the foot of the bank, a triumphal arch, decorated 
with evergreens and flags had been erected, display¬ 
ing the trite motto 

“Be his the palm that merits it.” 

over which was placed the Arms of the Barrow 
Family. Within a few yards, but of smaller dimen¬ 
sions, another was placed over the gateway of the 
Occupation Road, leading to Hoad, bearing the 
motto, 

“Virtue survives the grave.” 

Flags also were seen flying on the site of the 
monument,—on the steeple of St. Mary’s Church,— 
on the vessels in the port—and upon the straw-roofed 
cot in which the late Baronet first saw the light of a 
world in which he was destined to enact so distin¬ 
guished a part. Indeed, the streets appeared one 
continuous display of Flags, Banners, and Mottoes, 


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evincing clearly and indisputably, that a great a- 
mount of taste and industry had been bestowed 
upon them by the fair damsels of Ulverston. 

The town, indeed, as early as eight o’clock, pre¬ 
sented, altogether, an animated appearance; some 
hundreds of the inhabitants might then be seen 
congregated in groups in every quarter; and which, 
as the day advanced, were swelled by hundreds 
more, who flocked in from the surrounding neigh¬ 
bourhood, to wait the formation of the procession. 

It began to move about one o’clock, under the 
direction of Sergeant Major Bates, (W.) of the Duke 
of Lancaster’s Own Yeomanry Cavalry, in the fol¬ 
lowing order:— 

Superintendent Davidson, and the 
Members of the Ulverston Constabulary. 

The Ulverston Brass Band. 

The Pensioners Naval and Military. 

The Members of the various Friendly Societies 
of the Town, with the Flags, Banners, and 
Emblems of the different Orders, arranged according 

to seniority, viz : 

The Union Friendly Society. 

The Morecambe Lodge of the Independent 
Order of Odd-fellows. 


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The Lightburne Star Lodge (branch) of the 
Independent Order of Odd-fellows. 

The Furness Star Lodge of the Grand United 
Order of Odd-fellows. 

The Friendship, Love and Truth, Lodge, (branch) 
of the Grand United Order of Odd-fellows. 

The Band of the Messrs. Salmon. 

The Scholars of the Public Schools, arranged also 
according to seniority, headed by their Masters and 

Teachers, as follows; 

The Town Bank Scholars, (day.) 

The Town Bank Scholars, (Sunday.) 

The National Scholars, (day.) 

The National Scholars, (Sunday.) 

The Wesleyan Scholars, (Sunday.) 

The Independent Chapel Scholars, (Sunday.) 

The Roman Catholic Scholars, (day and Sunday.) 
The Ulverston Union Workhouse Scholars. 

The Regimental Band of the 52nd Regiment of 

Light Infantry. 

Sir George Barrow, and two Sons, 

Mr. Barrow of the Admiralty, 

Major Davis, (of the 52nd.) 
accompanied by the Committee and Subscribers, 
Mr. Trimen, the Architect. 

Mr. Smith, Contractor for the Works. 


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Messrs. Brocklebank, the Builders, bearing 
Trowel and Level. 

The Clergy, Magistrates, and Inhabitants of the 
Town and neighbourhood. 

In this order the procession began to move about 
one o’clock, proceeding from the Market-place, 
through King-street, up Southergate, by the Town 
Bank School, where it halted, whilst some verses 
written for the occasion, by Miss Agnes Strickland, 
(a lively incentive to the scholars to act well the part 
allotted them) were sung by the children of the In¬ 
fant School. 

The procession now proceeded to the site of the 
Monument where it arrived about two. A Booth 
was erected which was filled with Ladies. Having 
taken ground under the direction of Mr. Bates, and 
so placed as to give a clear and uninterrupted area 
round the base of the Monument, and the police, 
assisted by the members of the Friendly Societies 
appointed to keep the same from being infringed 
upon,—the ceremony commenced by the children 
singing a Hymn, written for the occasion by Mr. 
John Stanyan Bigg, and set to music by Mr. R. 
Daniel, organist of the parish church. Respecting 
this beautiful Hymn we may mention here, that it 


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had been the intention of the Committee in London, 
to request the late lamented Poet Laureate, Words¬ 
worth, to furnish a composition of a similar cha¬ 
racter, but his unexpected illness and death prevented 
the accomplishment of the task. 

Mr. Smith, the Builder, in a brief address, pre¬ 
sented a beautifully wrought silver trowel, with ivory 
handle, to Sir George Barrow, together with a bottle 
containing the several current coins of the realm, 
viz:—Half-farthing, Farthing, Half-penny, Penny, 
Fourpenny, Sixpenny, Shilling, Florin, Half-a-Crown 
Crown, Half-a-Sovereign, and Sovereign.—Also a 
copy of the Ulverston Advertiser; which having 
been deposited, by the eldest son of Sir George 
Barrow, in the cavity prepared for its reception,— 

Sir George Barrow said,—The bottle now placed 
in that cavity contains the current coin of the realm 
so that after many hundred of years, should it be 
opened, it will be discovered in what reign this mon¬ 
ument was erected. I will now proceed to lay the 
foundation stone, (which he then did, assisted by his 
brother, Mr. Barrow, amid the loud cheering of the 
assembled multitude.) 

The stone with the following inscription having 
been lowered, received several strokes from the mal¬ 
let, (one prepared for the occasion, wrought in ma- 


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hogany,) and Sir George Barrow declared the stone 
properly laid. 

ON THE 15TH MAY, A.D., 1850, 

IN THE 13TH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF 
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY, QUEEN VICTORIA, 

SIR GEORGE BARROW, BART., 

AND JOHN BARROW, ESQ., F. R. S. 

DEPOSITED THIS STONE TO RECORD THE 
COMMENCEMENT OF THE 

TESTIMONIAL TO THE LATE SIR JOHN BARROW. BART. 
ANDREW TRIMEN, ARCHITECT. 

Three times three cheers were then called for, 
which were given in a most enthusiastic manner. 

Sir George Barrow then said,—My esteemed 
friends, I had almost said my fellow townsmen, 
from the hearty reception I have met with. This is 
a memorable day for Ulverston; I am here, not to 
assist in raising a family monument only, though I 
hope that in the duty I am performing, I am obey¬ 
ing one of God’s commandments, the first, with 
promise, in honoring my Father ; but I am here on 
the part of those noblemen and gentlemen of England, 
who are subscribers to the monument, to lay the 
foundation of a testimonial, to record the high sense 
they entertain of the public worth of your revered 
townsman and my beloved parent. It is with just 


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pride and real gratitude that I find myself called up¬ 
on to take so prominent a part in this interesting 
ceremony, and the more so, as I am assured that 
you are content that the immediate descendant of 
your honored townsman should hold that position 
which might have been conferred on some eminent 
person. I rejoice to think that the departed worth of 
one who was bom at Ulverston, will now be brought 
home to your daily memories, by the erection of this 
memorial, and I fervently trust that it may continue 
for ages an ornament to this beautiful district, a 
place of resort for its inhabitants, and for strangers, 
where many a tribute of respect will be paid ; a 
beacon for the shipping of the bay, and an encourag¬ 
ing token for the guidance of the rising generation 
in the paths which lead to honor and renown. My 
kind friend and your excellent pastor will pray for 
a blessing on this undertaking, but I will offer one 
petition to the Author of all good, in which I am 
sure you will all join. 

“ O Lord prosper thou our work upon us, 
Prosper thou our handy work.” 

The Rev. R. Gwfillym made prayer as follows:— 
“O Lord God Almighty, the Creator, Pre- 


✓ 


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server, and Upholder of all things, both in Hea¬ 
ven, and in Earth, without whose blessing and 
protection nothing is strong, nothing can prosper, 
look down, we beseech Thee, with Thy favour on 
the work we are here assembled to undertake. 
In no spirit of vain boasting do we lay the founda¬ 
tion stone of this memorial, in no feeling of pride 
or presumption shall we proceed with the super¬ 
structure. We desire by it to perpetuate the 
name of one, to whom Thou wast pleased to grant 
a long and prosperous life, and whom by Thy 
grace Thou didst enable to do his duty faithfully 
and energetically amidst the varied and eventful 
scenes, through which he passed. We freely 
confess, we can neither think, nor do anything, 
that is rightful without Thee—to Thee, therefore, 
do we give all the praise of any worthy actions, 
which Thy servant performed: we bless Thee, for 
so ordering his steps that he was permitted to ex¬ 
hibit an example worthy of imitation in the fidelity 
and diligence, sincerity and devotion, with which he 
discharged his duty to his Sovereign and Country, 
during many years of active and arduous public ser¬ 
vice, in various climes, and under trying circum¬ 
stances. Grant that the honourable name which 
by Thy blessing he acquired, by the same blessing 

/ 


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may prove the means of inciting others to pursue a 
like beneficial career. 

“ More especially we commend to Thy favor and 
benediction the young persons here present, let Thy 
fatherly hand ever be over them, let Thy Holy 
Spirit ever be with them, and so lead them in the 
knowledge and obedience of Thy Word, that they 
may adorn the doctrine of God their Saviour in all 
things, and be useful members of the community, to 
which they belong. Let this be no empty ceremo¬ 
nial, rather let it speak to them a stirring lesson, 
inculcating the duties of their respective conditions, 
and inspiring them with an earnest desire to per¬ 
form all that is due from them. While they look 
on the scene before them, teach them in humble 
dependence on Thee, and with devout prayers for 
Thy aid, to resolve that they will lead no idle, and 
unprofitable life, but will seek Thy honour and 
glory above all things, and strive to deserve well of 
men, by devoting the best energies of their minds 
and bodies to promote the general good. 

“Implant in their hearts, we entreat Thee, such 
principles of sound morality and pure religion that 
they may become loyal and dutiful subjects of our 
beloved Queen, true lovers of their country, and 
above all, faithful and obedient servants of the Lord 
Jesus Christ. 


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" Finally, we implore the continuance of those 
manifold and great blessings, both temporal and 
spiritual, which thou hast bestowed on the Land of 
our Birth. Let Thine Almighty arm be extended 
over us for our protection. Let Thy wisdom guide 
and defend Our Gracious Sovereign Lady, Queen 
Victoria; direct and prosper the counsels and en¬ 
deavours of those who are put in authority under 
her, that in all things they may seek to promote 
Thy glory, and the welfare of mankind; let justice 
and holiness, let peace and love, with all the virtues 
which adorn the Christian profession, flourish and 
abound among us now and evermore. May all or¬ 
ders and degrees of men in their vocation and 
ministry truly and godly serve Thee, and unite in 
constant supplication for the help and direction of 
Thy Holy Spirit, and in praising Thee for Thy great 
and undeserved mercies towards us. 

“Accept we beseech Thee, O Heavenly Father, 
these our imperfect prayers and intercessions, for 
the sake of our blessed Saviour Jesus Christ, in 
whose name we humbly present them before the 
throne of Thy grace.—Amen. 

“ Protect us, O Lord, in all our doings, with Thy 
most gracious favour, and further us with Thy con¬ 
tinual help; that in all our works, begun, continued, 


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and ended in Thee, we may glorify Thy holy Name, 
and finally by Thy mercy obtain everlasting life; 
through Jesus Christ our Lord.—Amen.” 

The Lord’s Prayer. Benediction. 

Soon after the devotional part of the ceremony 
was concluded, three cheers were given for “ Lady 
Barrow.” 

Sir George Barrow in acknowledging the compli¬ 
ment, said—On behalf of Lady Barrow I thank you 
most sincerely. I am sure this day can never be 
forgotten by either of us. I trust the work may go 
on and prosper. 

Three cheers were then given for “ Mr. Barrow of 
the Admiralty,” which compliment he duly acknow¬ 
ledged ; after which cheers were given for “ Major 
Davis,” now Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the 
52nd Light Infantry. 

Colonel Davis in responding, said,—“ I thank you 
for the reception which you have given me. The 
late Sir John Barrow was an able valuable public 
servant, and highly respected. He, (Sir John Bar- 
row,) rose from the position of a poor man, by his 
own integrity and perseverance, to the high position 
which he held in the country. Colonel Davis then 
briefly alluded to the travels of Sir John Barrow, and 
the many works which he had published, and urged 


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upon all present to follow his example. He also al¬ 
luded to the many important Voyages of Discovery 
which had been sent forth from time to time, at his 
instigation, into the Arctic Seas : to the anxiety now 
felt in regard to Sir John Franklin’s expedition, and 
to the great efforts which were being made to succour 
that expedition, and stated that his second son, Mr. 
Barrow of the Admiralty, had taken a most promi¬ 
nent part, and had been most indefatigable in his 
exertions in furthering that humane object. 

Sir George Barrow next called for three cheers 
for the Rev. R. Gwillym, which he acknowledged in 
a very appropriate address. 

Colonel Davis proposed three cheers for the Cler¬ 
gy ; which were given in a most admirable manner. 

Four verses of the 112th Psalm, were then sung 
to the music of the 50th, by the children. 

The ceremony concluded by the regimental band 
of the 52nd Light Infantry playing the national an¬ 
them. This hand, twenty-four in number, sent forth 
the most enchanting martial strains, and was cer¬ 
tainly one of the great attractions of the day. 

Never has the hoary hill that stands on the con¬ 
fines of our little town, witnessed an exhibition so im¬ 
posing. The congregated thousands who had ga¬ 
thered from all quarters to witness the ceremony; 


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the troops of bright-eyed children, belonging to the 
various Day and Sunday schools in the town; the 
members of the different Friendly Societies, each 
bearing their appropriate badges; the banners of 
the various orders flaunting proudly in the sun¬ 
shine ; the burst of martial music, that at intervals 
startled the echoes that slumbered in the surround¬ 
ing valleys, and rural dells, all conspired to bring 
back tales of half-forgotten times, suggesting broken 
fragments, and affording sunny glimpses of the past, 
loosely connected together by an imaginary link of 
coincidences, till the whole produced a medley se¬ 
ries of reminiscences, in which distant times and 
places seemed strangely intermingled with one ano¬ 
ther, and with the present. The music and the 
banners, served to suggest the age of chivalry, 
when martial knights were ready to peril life and 
limb, for the light of“Ladye’s eye;” while the 
singing of the children in honour of the departed, 
transported us to those times when the Minnesin¬ 
gers, and the Meistersingers of Germany, and the 
light-hearted Troubadors of Provence, improvised 
for the “pleasaunce” of their lordly patrons. 

The scene itself was singularly in harmony with 
the reminiscences which the proceedings on the hill 
were calculated to awaken. To the north, the large 


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form of Coniston Old Man appeared, lifting his 
pointed peak into the sky; while around him on 
either hand, but at a greater distance, the moun¬ 
tains of Vv r estmoreland and Cumberland—a banded 
brotherhood—stretched their vast proportions over 
many miles of the distant landscape. Nearer at 
hand were hills of inferior altitude, between which, 
like opening vistas into fairy land, the eye ran up 
long defiles, catching in its course the smile of 
many white-washed cottages, standing in the midst 
of pleasant meadows, and verdant valleys. To the 
east, appeared the waters of the Bay of Morecambe, 
confined between the shores at Greenodd on the one 
hand, and the Cartmel chain of hills on the other, 
the opposite shore fringed with trees—a glorious 
mirror with a foliated frame ; while on the south, 
the waters of the same bay gleamed over an ampler 
area, between indented shores, and bordered by lux¬ 
uriant meadows, like the queen of beauty with a 
zone of emeralds, its shining surface reflecting a 
lustre as unspotted and untarnished, as the silver 
shield of Oberon. 

Amidst this lavish magnificence of nature, it is 
only left for us to express a hope that the name of 
him, whose virtues this day’s proceedings were in¬ 
tended to commemorate, may be as firmly estab- 


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Hshed amidst the shifting sands of time, as are the 
rocky foundations of the mountain, whose summit 
is destined to be crested with the memorial to his 
honour. 

The procession having re-formed, returned by the 
western side of the hill, on the serpentine paths re¬ 
cently made, egressing by the gate of Oubas Hill; 
thence by the Canal-head, Sunderland Terrace, 
Fountain-street, King-street, to the Market-place, 
where it took position, and dispersed with regularity 
and order. 

The Friendly Societies were afterwards treated to 
dinner at their several Lodges, viz:—The Union 
Friendly, at Mr. Neale’s, Hope and Anchor Inn, 
Duke-street; the Morecambe Lodge of the Inde¬ 
pendent Order of Oddfellows, at Mrs. Worthing¬ 
ton’s, Queen’s Arms Inn ; and its Branch Societv, 

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the Lightburn Lodge, at Mr. Gelderd’s, the Victoria 
Inn ; the Furness Star Lodge at the Grand United 
Order of Oddfellows, at Mr. Barnett’s, the King’s 
Arms Inn; and its Branch Society, the Friendship, 
Love, and Truth Lodge, at Mr. Postlethwaite’s, the 
Commercial Inn. The children of the Infant 
School were regaled by their patron, the Rev. R. 
Gwillym, at his residence, at Stockbridge; and all 
the other scholars (with the exception of those of 


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the Workhouse) at the National School, in the 
Ellers; the Workhouse children at the expense of 
B. Gilpin, Esq., partook of dinner at the Braddyll’s 
Arms Inn, previous to setting out of the procession, 
and at its conclusion, after partaking of refresh¬ 
ments at the Workhouse, in the evening, were 
regaled by the same gentleman, at Dragley Beck, 
and encouraged in a succession of sports in the 
grounds and meadows there, which were kept up by 
the party with happy glee till the waning day com¬ 
pelled them to desist. 

The company assembled on the Hill of Hoad at 
the above ceremony, were computed by the military 
gentlemen present at about 8,000. 

In returning from the ceremony, the procession, 
as it wound round the head of the Hoad, formed one 
of the grandest and most imposing spectacles it has 
ever been our lot to witness. No description of 
ours would enable the reader to form a faithful con¬ 
ception it presented, as the serpentine walks became 
gradually filled, until from the top to the bottom, 
an apparently endless chain of living links of human 
machinery appeared to have been set in motion. 
The effect was heightened by the display of numer¬ 
ous gay coloured flags, which imparted to the whole, 
the character of a grand romance rather than a 
scene of reality, g 


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Thus terminated the out-door proceedings of this 
day of rejoicing ; one that had never been witnessed 
in Ulverston, and which was followed by “ the gay 
and festive scene, in halle of dazzling light,” until a 
late hour .—Ulverstone Advertiser. 


List of Subscribers to the Barrow Monument. 


£. s. d . 

Her Majesty The Queen Dowager 25 0 0 

Acland, Sir T. Dyke, Bt., M.P., F.R.S. 10 0 0 
Adam, Admiral Sir Charles, K.C.B. 

Governor of Greenwich Hospital .. 2 0 0 

Austin, Captain Horatio T., C.B., R.N. 10 0 

Ainslie, Montague, Esq. 2 2 0 

Armstrong, Mrs. E. J. M. S. 1 0 0 

Amedroz, H. F., Esq. 10 0 

Ashburner, John, Esq. 10 0 

Atkinson, Mr. Robert. 10 0 

Beaufort, The Duke of, K.G. 5 0 0 

Burlington, The Earl of, F.R.S. 20 0 0 

Bexley, The Lord, P.C. D.C.L. F.R.S. 10 0 0 
Beaufort, Admiral Sir Francis, K.C.B. 10 0 0 
Brodic, Sir Benjamin, Bart., F.R.S. .. 5 0 0 







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Subscribers to the Monument. 

£. 5 . d. m 

Back, Captain Sir George, R.N. ... 1 00 

Belcher, Captain Sir Edward, C.B. R.N. 110 
Brisbane, General Sir T. M., Bart. 

G.C.B. (34th Regiment.) .. .. 5 0 0 

Barrow, The Dowager Lady. 25 0 0 

2nd Subscription. 25 0 0 

- Sir George, Bart. 25 0 0 

2nd Subscription. 25 0 0 

- John, Esq., F.R.S. (Admiralty) 25 0 0 

2nd Subscription. 27 0 0 

3rd Subscription. 30 0 0 

- Miss. 10 0 0 

2nd Subscription. 25 0 0 

- Peter, Esq., (H. M. Consul at 

Caen.). 1210 0 

— -— Miss Anna. 5 5 0 

— -- Rev. James, (Cape of Good 

Hope.). 330 

■- Roger, Esq. 1 1 0 

- Mr. James, (Ulverston.) .. 110 

- Mr. (Liverpool.). 110 

- Mrs. (Liverpool.). 1 0 0 

- Mr. (Bowchurch.). 2 2 0 

























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Subscribers to the Monument. 

Batty, Mrs. J. M. 

2nd Subscription. 

- Robert B., Esq., B.A. 

- Dr. Robert. 

Baldwin, Rev. John, A.M. 

Ball, Samuel, Esq. 

Barker, Daye, Esq. 

Bayfield, Captain H. W., R.N. F.R.A.S. 
Baumgardt, Colonel, C.B. (2nd Queen’s 

Royal.). 

Becher, Com. A. B., R.N. F.R.A S... 

2nd Subscription. 

Beecbey, Capt. F. W., R.N. F.R.S. . 

-*— Com., R.B. R.N. 

Bethune, Captain R. D., C.B. R.N. .. 

Bigland, Captain W. B., R.N. 

Boileau, J., Esq. 

Bond, Charles, Esq. 

Bower, Captain James P., R.N. 

Brande, Mrs. W. T. 

Briggs, Mr. T. T. . . * . 

Brown, Lt. G. H., R.N. Registrar of 

Merchant Seamen. 

Brunei, J. K., Esq. ,. . 


£. s . d . 
10 0 0 
25 0 0 
2 2 0 
1 1 0 
2 2 0 
3 0 0 
5 0 0 

1 1 0 

1 1 0 
1 1 0 
5 0 0 
5 0 0 
1 1 0 
2 2 0 
2 2 0 
1 1 0 
1 1 0 
1 1 0 
1 1 0 
1 1 0 

1 1 0 

5 5 0 

















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i Subscribers to the Monument. 

£. s. d. 

Busfeild, W., Esq. M.P. 5 0 0 

Byrne, Charles, Esq. . . .. 1 1 Q 

Camden, The Marquis of, K.G. 5 0 0 

Castlereagh, The Viscount. 2 0 0 

Cockburn, Admiral The Rt. Honble. 

Sir George, P.C. G.C.B. F.R.S. .. 10 0 0 

Clerk, Rt. Hon. Sir George, Bt. G.C.B. 5 0 0 

Croker, Rt, Hon. J. W., P.C. F.R.S. . 10 0 0 

Campbell, Rear Admiral Donald, R.N. 1 10 

Caldwell, Charles, Esq. ...... 110 

Carnac, Captain John Rivet, R.N. .. 2 2 0 

Cartwright, Henry, Esq. 5 0 0 

Charlewood, Com. E. P., (Coast Guard) 3 3 0 

Clarke, James, Esq. 10 0 

Clowes, W., and Sons. 1010 0 

Cole, Captain J. M., R.N. K.H. ... 110 

Cooper, Mrs. 10 6 

Cornthwaite, Mr. Joseph. 10 6 

Coutts, and Co., Messrs. .. ., .. 10 0 0 

Croker, Thomas Crofton, Esq. F.S.A.. 110 

Currie, Arthur, Esq. 1 1 0 

Currie, Edward, Esq. ., ., .. .. 1 1 0 












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Subscribers to the Monument. 

Douglas, The Lord Wm. Keith .. 

De Ros, Captain The Hon. F. F., R.N. 
Denman, Capt. The Hon. Joseph, R.N. 
Davis, Sir John, Bart, (late Governor 
of Hongkong.) 

Davis, Lt. Col. Henry S. D., (52nd 

Light Infantry.). 

- Mrs. 

Denham, Captain H. M., R.N. 

De Vries, John N., Esq. 

Dixon, Charles, Esq. 

- Captain M., R.N. 

Dickenson, W. F. D., Esq. 

Downs, Mr. T., (Master Rigger.) 

Elliot, Adm. The Hon. G., C.B. F.R.S. 

Elliott, Charles, Esq. F.R.S. 

Evans, Captain George, R.N. 

Franklin, Captain Sir John, K. C. H. 

(through Lady Franklin.) 

Fitzjames, Captain James, R.N. Arctic 
Expedition, (through a friend.) .. 
Fitzroy, Captain, R.N. 


£. s. d. 

10 0 0 

5 0 0 

1 1 0 

5 0 0 

2 2 0 
2 0 0 
2 0 0 
5 0 0 
10 0 0 
1 0 0 
1 0 0 
1 0 0 

10 0 0 
5 0 0 

1 1 0 


25 0 0 

5 5 0 
2 0 0 









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Subscribers to the Monument. 

£. s « (I, 

Faulkner, Rev. H. B. 5 0 0 

Fell, John, and Co. 1 10 

Graham, The Rt. Honble. Sir James, 

Bart. M.P. P.C. 10 10 0 

Gibraltar, The Bishop of. 5 0 0 

Gage, Adm. Sir W. H., Kt. G.C.H.. . 10 10 0 

Gilpin, Bernard, Esq., Surgeon, R.N... 5 5 0 

2nd Subscription. 3 3 0 

Graves, Messrs, and Co. 1 10 

Grundy, Thomas, of Preston . . .. 1 10 

Guillemard, Mrs. 300 

Gwillym, Rev. Richard. 1 10 

2nd Subscription. 2 2 0 

Howe, The Earl, G.C.H. P.C. D.C.L. 25 0 0 

Haddington, The Earl of, P.C. F.R.S. 20 0 0 

Hardwicke, The Earl of,. 5 0 0 

Herbert, Rt. Hon. Sidney, M.P. P.C. 5 0 0 

Hart, Adm. Sir Henry, Kt. K.C.H. .. 110 

Hamond, Adm. Sir G. E. Bt. K.C.B. 10 0 
Hastings, Capt. Sir Thos. R N. .. 2 0 0 

Home, Capt. Sir Everard, Bt. R.N. .. 2 0 0 











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Subscribers to the Monument. 

£. s. d. 


Hamilton, Captain W. A. B. R. N. 

Secretary of the Admiralty .. .. 5 0 0 

Hamilton, Captain A. P.,R.N. 1 0 0 

Hathorn, Captain George, R.N. 2 0 0 

Hall, Captain W. H., C.B. R.N. .. 110 

Hay, J. H. Esq. 33 0 

Hay, Robert William, Esq. .. . . 1 10 

Hadow, Patrick, Esq. . 2 0 0 

Herbert, J. Esq., Trinity House. .. 10 0 

Heriot, Captain W. M., R. M. 5 0 0 

Hindmarsh, Capt. Sir John, R. N. .. 1 1 0 

41 

Inglis, Sir R. Harry, Bart. M.P. .. 2 0 0 

Jefferson, T. E. Esq. 1 10 

Jervoise, Sir Samuel Clerk, Bart. .. 5 5 0 

Johnston, Samuel, Esq. 5 0 0 

Johnson, Captain E. I., R.N. F.R.S... 110 

Kennedy, C. S. Esq. I 1 0 

Kent, Alex. Esq. R.N. 2 2 0 

Kershaw, Samuel, Esq. 2 2 0 

Lonsdale, The Earl of, . 5 0 0 







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Subscribers to the Monument. 

£. s. di 

Llandaff, The Bishop of, D.D., F.R.S. 5 0 0 

Leeke, Captain Sir Henry J., K.H. .. 1 1 0 

Leake, Colonel, F.R.S. 5 0 0 

Liverpool, The Mayor of,. 5 0 0 

Leathorn, Miss. E. 10 6 

Lewthwaite, John, Esq. 1 10 

Lodder, Captain W. P. (6th Reg.) . . 5 5 0 

-Lieutenant C. A., R.N. .. 110 

-Captain Henry C., (47th Reg.) 110 

Melville, The Lord Viscount, P. C. 

K. T., F. R. S. 20 0 0 

Minto, The Earl of, GCR., PC., FRS. 10 0 0 

Murchison, Sir R. I., FRS. GC., St. S. 5 5 0 

Malcolm, Adm. Sir C., K.C.B. .. 110 

Mallock, Lieutenant T„, R.N. 1 1 0 

Mangles, Captain, R.N. 1 0 0 

Mawson, Mr. M. . 10 6 

Maxwell, Acheson, Esq. ., .. .. 10 0 0 

May, T. Erskine, Esq. 110 

Meek, Sir J., (Comp, of Viet, of Navy) 110 

Menzies, Mrs. 100 

Michell, Com. R. C., R.N. 10 0 

Midlane, Maurice W. Esq. .. .. 1 10 

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Subscribers to the Monument. 

£. s. d. 

Millers, Rev. George. 5 0 0 

Moorsom, Captain, R.E. 1 1 0 

Mountain, W. J. Esq. . 1 1 0 

Murray, John Esq. 1010 0 

Michaelson, T. Y. P., Esq. .. .. 1 10 

Northampton, The Marquis of, F.it.S. 10 10 0 
Norwich, The Bishop of, D.D. F.R S.. 5 0 0 

Newberry, Mrs. 2 20 

Newton, James, Esq. 1 1 0 

-Mr. 10 0 

Oxford, The Bishop of, D.D. F.R.S... 2 0 0 

Ogle, Admiral Sir Charles, Bart. . .. 2 2 0 

Ommanney, Adm. Sir John A., K.C.B. 3 0 0 

- Captain Erasmus, R.N. .. 110 

Oldfield, Colonel, R.E. 10 0 

Owen, Major Gen. Sir John, K.C.B. 

K.H. (Deputy Adjutant General 

Royal Marines.). 1 1 0 

O’Byrne, W. R., Esq. (Author of 

Naval Biography.). 2 2 0 

Outram, Sir Benjamin, R.N. M.D. .. 110 















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Subscribers to the Monument. 

£• s. c?. 

Palmerston, Viscount. 5 0 0 

Peel, The Rt. Hon. Sir Robert, Bt.P.C. 10 0 0 

Parker, Adm. Sir Wm., Bt. G.C.B. .. 10 0 0 

Parry, Capt. Sir W. E., Kt. C.B. R.N. 2 0 0 

Pasley, Capt. Sir Thomas S., Bt. R.N. 10 0 

Pearce, Stephen, Esq. 10 0 

Pennell, William, Esq. 5 0 0 

- C. H., Esq. 110 

Petty, Thomas, Esq. 5 5 0 

Piers, O Barrington, Esq. 110 

Postlethwaite, Roger, Esq. R.N. ... 110 

Pilch, Lt. William, R.N. 10 0 

Powney, Captain John, R.N. K.H. .. 110 

Ripon, The Earl of . 5 0 0 

Rodd, Lady. 500 

Ross, Capt. Sir James C., R.N. F.R.S. 5 0 0 

Richardson, Sir John, C.B. R.N. .. 2 0 0 

Robinson, Sir George Best, Bart. .. 2 2 0 

—-Captain C. G. 3 0 0 

Ramsden, James, Esq. 1 10 

Raven, Mrs. 106 

Raper, Lt. Henry, R.N. F.R.A.S. .. 110 

Rendel, James M., Esq. C.E. F.R.S.•. 2 0 0 














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Subscribers to the Monument. 


£. s . d. 

a * 

Reade, J. M., Esq. 2 0 0 

Remington, Rev. T. 1 1 0 

-H., Esq. 2 2 0 

2nd Subscription . . .. .. . . 3 3 0 

Robson, W. F., Esq. (Solicitor of the 

Admiralty.). 5 00 

Ronald, Captain W. 2 00 

Russell, Jesse Watts, Esq. F.R.S. .. 10 10 0 

Stanley, The Lord of Alderley .. . . 10 0 0 

Staunton, Sir George T., Bt. M.P. .. 20 0 0 

2nd Subscription. 5 0 0 

Stirling, Captain Sir James, Bt. R.N. . 2 0 0 

Simpkinson, Sir J. Francis. 5 0 0 

Seymour, Adm. Sir G., Kt. G.C.H. .. 110 

Sabine, Colonel, R.A. F.R.S. 2 0 0 

Salmon, Mr. William. 10 6 

Scholick, E. J., Esq.. .. 5 0 0 

Shaw, W. E., Esq. 10 0 

Smith, Mr, Thomas. 10 6 

Smyth, Captain W. H., R.N. F.R.S... 2 0 0 

Soulby, Mr. Stephen,. 1 1 0 

Stanley, Captain Edward, R.N. 1 1 0 

Sunderland, G. H. C., Esq. 5 5 0 

2nd Subscription.1 1 Q 


















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Subscribers to the Monument. 

£. s. d. 

Surtees, R. S., Esq. (Hamsterley Hall 

Gateshead.). 2 20 

Sunderland, Thomas, Esq., R.N.... 110 

Sykes, Admiral. 5 5 0 

The Master Warden and Elder Brethren 

of the Trinity House. 100 0 0 

Taylor, J. S. Esq., Master, R.N. .. 10 0 

Tolming, Rev. T. 110 

Town and Fell, Messrs. 1 10 

Trimen A. Esq., (Architect of the Tower) 5 5 0 

ValR, Mrs. Philip . 1 1 0 

Willock, Lady. 100 

Walker, Capt. SirB., KCB., (Surveyor 

of the Navy.). 1 1 0 

Walker, James Esq., C.E. 3 3 0 

Ward, F. Esq. 1 1 0 

Washington, Captain, R.N., F.R.S. .. 2 0 0 

Wakeling, Messrs., and Son .. .. 1 10 

Waucliope, Rear Admiral. 2 0 0 

Willie, Mrs. 10 6 

Williams, Captain R.N. 3 0 0 


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54 


Subscribers to the Monument. 

£. s. d. 


Woodburne, Thomas, Esq. 110 

Wood, Captain, W., R. M. .. .. 5 5 0 

Worth, Captain H. I., R.N. 1 10 

Worth, George, Esq. 1 1 0 

Young, S. F. Esq. 1 0 0 


Total 


£ 1,182 8 0 







Cost of the Tower. 


The following is an account of the expense incurred 
in erecting the Monumental Tow r er on the Hoad 
Hill 

£. s. d. 

Original Contract with Messrs. Smith 

and Appleford for building the Tower 800 0 0 

Repair of Cupola, damaged by Light¬ 


ning. 136 4 0 

Fitting the Lightning Conductor . . . 46 0 0 

Expenses attending the Ceremony of 

laying the First Stone. 65 9 0 


Expenses of Band of the 52nd Light 

Infantry on the above occasion . . 32 0 0 

Erecting small wooden Booth, 

Messrs. Brocklebank’s Estimate . . 36 0 0 

Engraving of the Monument, and print¬ 
ing off Copies for Subscribers. . . . 27 12 6 

Advertisements. 28 0 0 

Inscription on the Door and in the 
Lanthern, as charged by the Messrs. 

Brocklebank. 22 7 0 

Total . 1,193 12 6 

A. B, BECHER, Commander, R.N., 

Honorary Secretary, 









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Days for hoisting the Line of Battle Ship’s 
Union Jack,—at the Barrow Tower,—the Flag 
having been presented by the Lords Commissioners 
of the Admiralty. 

From 8 a.m. until sunset, viz :— 

, „ , , , f Anniversary of the day upon which the 

^ 1 a y>| Foundation Stone of the Tower was laid. 

24th May,—The Queen’s Birth-day, 

(or day appointed.) 

loxi t f The Battle of Waterloo, which secured 
18th June,« . ^ 

’ peace to Lurope. 

, Q i t f The day on which Sir John Barrow was 
i une? Inborn, at Dragleybeck A.D. 1764. 

20th June,—The Accession. 

28th June,—The Coronation; 

26th Aug.,—Prince Albert’s Birth-day. 

21st Oct.,—The Battle of Trafalgar. 

22nd Oct.,—Birth-day of Sir George Barrow, Bart* 

9th Nov.,—Birth-day of the Prince of Wales. 

21st Nov.,—Birth-day of the Princess Royal. 

9 o tvt J (Half-mast high.) The day upon which 
r ov ’’ \Sir John Barrow departed this life. 

In addition to the foregoing the Flag is hoisted 

on the following anniversaries:—1st March, St. 

David’s Day,—17th March, St. Patrick’s Day,— 

23rd April, St. George’s Day,—30tli November, 

St. Andrew’s Day. 


LE JL ’09 





* 

MEMOIR 

OF 





SIR JOHN BARROW, BART., 


AND 

DESCRIPTION 


OF THE 


BARROW MONUMENT, 

ERECTED ON THE 


HILL OF HOAD, ULVERSTON 


In the neighbourhood of his Birth-place. 

A. D. 1850. 



Vivit Post Funera Virtus. 


Price One Shilling and Sixpence. 































































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